Notes on Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin
is a novelist, publisher, consultant editor at
the Times Literary Supplement and a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature. He is also the
author of The Middle East in the Midddle Ages:
The Bahri Mamluke Sultanate 1250-1382, The
Arabian Nights; A Companion, Islamic Art,
Night and Horses and the Desert: An Anthology
of Classical Arabic Literature and the
recently published The Alhambra. He is
currently editing a new translation of The
Arabian Nights as well as a volume of The
New Cambridge History of Islam. He is about
to finish a book on the history of Orientalism. Return
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Irwin, Robert. "Review of
From Slave to Sultan: The Career of al-Mansur
Qalawun and the Consolidation of Mamluk Rule in
Egypt and Syria (678-689A.H./1279-1290A.D.), by
Linda S. Northrup" in MSR. Vol. 4. 2000.
245-247.

Irwin, Robert. "Review of
The Evolution of a Sufi Institution in Mamluk
Egypt: The Khanqah, by Leonor Fernandes" in
JRAS. No. 2. 1989. 329-331.

Irwin, Robert. "Under
Western Eyes: A History of Mamluk Studies"
in MSR. Vol. 4. 2000. 27-51.

Irwin, Robert. "Review of
The Office of Qâdî al-Qudât in Cairo under the
Bahrî Mamluks, by Joseph H. Escovitz" in
BSOAS. Vol. 49. 1986. 574-575.

Irwin, Robert. "Review of
Qur'ans of the Mamluks, by David James" in
JRAS. No. 2. 1989. 328-329.

Irwin, Robert. "Review of
Protectors or Praetorians? The Last Mamluk
Sultans and Egypt's Waning as a Great Power, by
Carl F. Petry; and Struggle for Domination in the
Middle East: The Ottoman-Mamluk War, 1485-91, by
Shai Har-El" in JRAS. Vol. 7. 1997. 133-136.

Irwin, Robert G. "What the
Partridge Told the Eagle: A Neglected Arabic
Source on Chinggis Khan and the Early History of
the Mongols" in The Mongol Empire and Its
Legacy. Amitai-Preiss, Reuven (edited by).
Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and
Texts; 24. Leiden, Boston, and Köln: E. J.
Brill, 1999. 5-11.

Irwin, Robert. "The Image of
the Byzantine and the Frank in Arab Popular
Literature of the Late Middle Ages" in
Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean
after 1204. Arbel, Benjamin. London: Frank Cass
and Company Limited, 1989. 226-242. Reprinted
from Mediterranean Historical Review, vol.4, no.1
(1989): 226-242.

Irwin, Robert. "The Mamluk
Conquest of the County of Tripoli" in
Crusade and Settlement: Papers Read at the First
Conference of the Society for the Study of the
Crusades and the Latin East and Presented to R.
C. Smail. Edbury, Peter W. (edited by). Cardiff:
University College Cardiff Press, 1985. 246-250.

Irwin, Robert. "The Supply
of Money and the Direction of Trade in
Thirteenth-Century Syria" in Coinage in the
Latin East: The Fourth Oxford Symposium on
Coinage and Monetary History. Edbury, Peter W.
(edited by). British Archeological Reports,
International Series; 77. Oxford: British
Archaeological Reports, 1980. 73-104.

Irwin, Robert. "Iqta` and
the End of the Crusader States" in The
Eastern Mediterranean Lands in the Period of the
Crusades. Holt, P. M. (edited by). Warminster:
Aris and Phillips, 1977. 62-77.